Christmas Beer

[Tony]

1 month in the bottle and its going great.

I had enough for a dozen 750ml champein bottles and 4 x smaller bottle for evaluation.

I have tried one every week or so to keep an eye on progress.

First week it started out a bit raw and very cloudy..... milky. I wasnt worried though.

second week gas was perfect, still couldy but better and starting to smooth out.

Third week i gave the bottle to my brother to try..... he loved it. said he couldnt wait to xmas

I just poured the last test bottle.

MARKED improvement honey/cinamon sweetnes and spice in aroma, much clearer.... still a bit cloudy but i let a bit of yeast in.... bugger.
flavour is malt and spice well ballanced with a touch of hops.

the orange and honey are not prominent like i thought they would be but time will tell.

the yeast character of the S-33 is a bit hard to pick through the rest of the complexity but its there. cant really coment on it in this beer. there are too may things going on to tell.

I may have to crack one late october to try.

cheers

 

[Hopnsandles]

Hi guys , I know I don't talk much here on this site but ........ I also have been wanting a
Christmas pudding beer . The thing is I like to put what I'm wanting (pudding) In a Pale Ale
I have made a wicked Cherry Beer a few years ago and used 2 trays of Rolleystone farm
fresh cherries (WA), Belgian Candy Sugar on a Wheat Beer Base with tettenanger. It was
Amazing and won a prize at Manjimup Cherry Harmony Festival . fresh ingredients YUM...

I'm thinking of fermenting with a REAL Rotary club pudding ??? At 20litre batch all grain
With hersbrucker and or tettenanger at 20-30 IBU with alcohol at 5-7% . The pudding I was
thinking mashing up in a pot ,cooling and adding to the fermenter . I know it will be muddy
at the start but with time will drop and clear .

Any ideas or comments please ...